Modeling scenarios for water allocation in the Gediz Basin, Turkey

Water management / Water allocation / Models / River basin development / Hydrology / Decision making / Environmental effects / Water use efficiency / Climate / Irrigation water / Irrigated farming / Stream flow / Surface water / Salt water intrusion / Turkey / Gediz Basin

Employee Work Ethic in Nine Nonindustrialized Contexts: Some Surprising Non-POSH Findings

Gross, Carr, Reichman, Abdul-Nasiru, and Oestereich's (2017) article argues that industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology has a limited perspective that rarely goes beyond the specific professional populations in formal economies of high-income countriesa perspective they refer to as a POSH perspective. This valuable criticism should also eschew the notion that workers in nonindustrialized countries are necessarily different

Living till the End: Cancer Patients in the Last Phase of Life

In this thesis, two main subjects are addressed: quality of life of cancer patients in their last phase of life (part 1 of the thesis) and end-of-life care and medical decision making (part 2 of the thesis). The first part of the thesis includes studies on the psychological status and feelings of cancer patients after they have been informed of their diagnosis of incurable cancer, and on the quality of life of these patients during their last year of life. The second part explores the content and evaluation of end- of-life care, and patients care needs. This part also addresses the attitudes of cancer patients toward medical end-of-life decision making and differences in dying at home or in an institution